someone will give me a hand with it. Lynn, I'm looking at you…
I graduated highschool for a reason, and it wasn't to go to college.
I'd of thought, at least from a general perspective anyway, people tended to stick to commenting to the more recently posted entries, unless you're a spammer/troll/idiot. So why's an entry I posted in June just now getting a response from the very people it was aimed at? Not that I'm complaining, really–it *was*, after all, exactly what I expected. But really. Oh, and, I personally like this one.
We have long since left our days of ES behind and stand on our own as an inpendant and continuingly succesful game. I do not see the need to drag up old blood.
I wonder if she even bothered to figure out exactly how old that entry is. Probably not… she just heard someone was criticising her MUD, and thought she'd set the record straight. Welp, it's still crooked, but I'll let you have your delusions. I do just have to point out something, though. If you're gonna try rubbing in the fact a place shuts down, it might actually do you a fair bit of good to know the details. Like, say… when it shut down–no, contrary to the one person's comment in the above posted entry, it wasn't in June. But like I said, I'll let you have your delusions. Just don't be too surprised when reality slaps you in the face. I expect another predictable response to this entry in roughly 6 months. And by then, I'll have forgotten what in the hell you're going on about. But oh well.
Stuck by James at 10:04 AM
First, I should probably point out that I haven't RP'd there in ages. But, that said, before I stopped having time to RP there and still keep up with everything else, including some fairly interesting RP I've got going on elsewhere when I can manage to log on, I'd been playing there fairly consistently for somewhere in the neighbourhood of 3-4 years. And, I just found out not even half an hour ago, Eternal Struggle is shutting down. I didn't even find out from the people in charge… rather indirectly, from someone who barely talks to the people in charge. Apparently, it's been decided for the past couple weeks, and the plan is not to tell anyone–I guess one of the owners accidentally let it slip, then? Anyway. Yeah, it's a little irritating, but like I said, I guess it had to happen. Numbers have been fairly low for, well, the past like 6 months, and they're only getting lower. I dunno, they could have, maybe? … just said something about it, rather than just let it wind down until it's eventually not there and whoever shows up to play not having a clue. Bleh. People's reasoning for doing things is one thing I'll never quite understand. Ah well, it's done, I gave up any right I had to a say over it when I left the staff. Anyway… I'll probably hold off actually publishing this entry until after it's shut downn or at least until it becomes fairly well known… not that anyone from ES actually reads this thing anyway, but for just on the off chance people do, yeah, it was planned. And, yeah, they knew it would happen. The only reason you didn't is because they wanted to keep it a secret. That's politics, though. And that's why I didn't really care too much when I ended up having to leave the staff. I like RL politics. Politics in my RP, though, pisses me off.
Stuck by James at 1:59 PM
Awesome roleplay located. If you like science fiction and like RP, check it out… hell, if you don't like science fiction and like RP, check out a few other games. There's no shortage of places to RP there, depending on what you're into… I mean, hell, they've got D and D, if that's any indication. Don't ask me which ruleset they use–I don't play it, I just know they have it since I moonlight as one of the guys that maintains the servers these games sit on. So, anyway. I don't RP in person because, well, I don't. But I get plenty of my fill online. There, and a few other places. I should post logs of some of said RP up here. Eventually. Maybe. Feh, hell no.
Stuck by James at 11:03 AM
I'm due for a round of Shadow Siege bashing. But I don't even have to do the bashing… someone already did it for me. I'll stick to Eternal Struggle when I can actually get to RPing, thankya much.
Stuck by James at 6:29 AM
So, the scheduled RP for tonight on my Star Trek RPG was rather cancelled, but at least I managed to find those quizes to be quite the amusing distraction. Which is good, because now, I get to be bored to tears 'til I fall asleep, assuming I ever actually get to deciding to do that any time tonight. Although, to be blatantly honest… I don't fucking feel like it. On that, I blame the caffeine. Every single time. Yay for constant awakeness, though. Now to find some RP to go with it.
Stuck by James at 10:12 PM
Well, 3 years later and it looks like Shadow Siege is the one going downhill. This after, almost 3 years ago to the day, its co-owners were pretty much swearing up and down it would be Eternal Struggle that would fall apart once they left. There's something satisfying about hearing that, not only have most of the people that followed the mass exitus away from ES when SS was originally created, but also most of the newer players have gotten fed up with the bullshit and left. So much for a RP friendly atmosphere, eh Mina?
Shadow Siege is a specialised type of mud in that it is roleplay enforced. This means that the focus is not to go out and kill anything that moves, but rather to put up with the staff trying to direct RP in exactly the manner they want it to proceed, and kill off those characters that attempt to stray away from our neat little script, while giving all sorts of IC perks to the people we happen to be friends with OOCly.
There. Now it looks the way it's supposed to.
Stuck by James at 2:05 PM
Everyone who bothers to actually read this already knows I'm an avid roleplayer. And, they also know the majority of said roleplay occurs on Eternal Struggle. So I won't bother with mentioning that in future. Not that anyone reads this really, but you know… So, I've gone and created a character specificly for commic relief. He's not very bright–well, actually, he borders on brainless. HE's extremely fat, short, and ugly. Well, maybe not for his race but by most people's standards he is. But he's oodles of fun to play! I'll have a picture of him eventually. Maybe. If people actually want to see it. And if
someone will give me a hand with it. Lynn, I'm looking at you…
Stuck by James at 5:03 PM
Well, on the bright side, part of the too much that's happening is I'm back on staff at Eternal Struggle, better known as that place that's stolen all my RP ability. So when I can I've been getting caught up with things there and helping out wherever. Aside from that… eh. Reality sucks. But we know this already. Maybe next time I post something it'll have more content to it. Not making any promises, mind you.
Stuck by James at 9:15 AM
… laughing at people who get so wrapped up in the idea of a game. And it wasn't even a good game, either. Star Conquest, the original game written, owned and run by Squid Soft, is supposedly eventually coming back online sometime between now and the day hell freezes over. Yeah, I played the game occasionally… it killed a few hours when you're in the mood for things tedius. But to listen to some people go off on their blog, you'd think the world was that much closer to coming to an end every time it turns out the game isn't coming back up yet. God, I thought that was just a Diablo craze thing. Someone put these people out of my misery… I don't wanna laugh at them anymore. Oh, never mind. Yes I do.
Stuck by James at 10:22 AM
One should not go from one extreme to the other so easily as I managed to do last night. People who aren't interested in roleplaying can feel free to skip to the quizes. Or go elsewhere. I recommend bored.com. Part of the night last night was spent playing a drunken asshole on Eternal Struggle. That was some serious fun RP. Then, on that same game, a not so drunk just as assholeish outlaw/criminal/something or other. All that sandwitched around a security officer on my Star Trek RPG. Yeah, I'm into the whole trek thing. Sue me. Anyway… this leads me to the conclusion that I'm a tiny bit more fucked up than the average loon. But oh well, it kills a few hours… or an entire night. So it's all good.
Stuck by James at 8:42 AM
Just once I'd like a roleplaying game without the politics. Yeah, it's not a world-changing issue but I don't care. I play, well used to play, 2 RPG's, one of which has been shut down now for 4 months or so–I still play the other. Both games, however, are pretty much up in arms at the staff level about God only knows what. The one that's shut down, though, has taken it to a whole new level of immature. Both sides, as indicated on this site, and as echoed on this one, have effectively said "We're not bringing the game back online until they back off." Hmmm… you're not being payed for it, and it sure as hell isn't unionised… so uh, grow up and let people play. Really… I know children who act less childish.
Stuck by James at 7:28 PM
A little nod to them there people I like to spy on... I mean read; give 'em a look over. It's good for you.
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